Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:21:38 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/18] x86, barrier: stop speculation for failed access_ok |
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 06:24:11PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > How about: > > CONFIG_SPECTRE1_WORKAROUND_INDEX_MASK > > CONFIG_SPECTRE1_WORKAROUND_LOAD_FENCE > > INSTRUCTION_FENCE if anything. LFENCE for Intel (and now also for AMD as > per 0592b0bce169) is a misnomer, IFENCE would be a better name for it.
Btw., we should probably propagate that naming to most places and only point it out in comments/documentation that Intel/AMD calls this CPU functionality 'LFENCE' for historic reasons and that the opcode got stolen for the Spectre fixes.
Thanks,
Ingo
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