Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Nov 2019 21:23:45 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10 6/6] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by kernel parameter |
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 06:02:04PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > it requires we get the kernel and firmware clean, but only warns about > > dodgy userspace, which I really don't think there is much of. > > > > getting the kernel clean should be pretty simple. > > Fenghua has a half dozen additional patches (I think they were > all posted in previous iterations of the patch) that were found by > code inspection, rather than by actually hitting them.
I thought we merged at least some of that, but maybe my recollection is faulty.
> Those should go in ahead of this.
Yes, we should make the kernel as clean as possible before doing this.
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